IMAGINATIONS

 

 

 

Sociological imagination

enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography. Wright C. Mills (1959) as cited in Henslin, J. M. (2015)  Essentials of Sociology:  A down-to-earth approach”  11th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

 

Eisner: Educational Imagination

Erickson: Educational Imagination (in Moss et al, 2009, p. 504
“When I say a study has an educational imagination, I mean it addresses issues of curriculum, pedagogy, and school organization in ways that shed light on–not prove but rather illuminate, make us smarter about–the limits and possibilities for what practicing educators might do in making school happen on a daily basis. Such a study also sheds light on which aims of schooling are worth trying to achieve in the first place–it has a critical vision of ends as well as of means toward ends. Educational imagination involves asking research questions that go beyond utilitarian matters of efficiency and effectiveness, as in the discourse of new public management (see Barzelay, 2001), especially going beyond matters of short-term “effects” that are easily and cheaply measured.

Dialectical imagination

<class=”quote”>Dialectical imagination (Jay, 1973) is the ability to view the world in terms of its potential for being changed in the future, and hard-won ability in a world that promotes positivist habits of mind acquiescing to the status quo.”  p. 109
Agger, B. (1991). CRITICAL THEORY, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, POSTMODERNISM: Their Sociological Relevance. Annual Review of Sociology, 17, 105–131. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.000541

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